Well, as long as the puppy weighs around 3 pounds. Anyway, that’s the Toughbook S9’s main selling point: It’s pretty light for its size and feature set. So light, in fact, that they’re claiming it to be the lightest 12.1-inch notebook with a DVD drive at 3 pounds. And since it also falls under Panasonic’s Toughbook line, it’s also tough enough to take more than the average beating. Specifically, the tough (but light) magnesium alloy case and shock-mounted hard drive is built to take a 30-inch drop and up to 220 pounds of pressure sitting on top of it, which could prove handy when you’re traveling. The keyboard’s also protected against spills in case you get clumsy with your morning coffee.
Question: who do you think is the next company to most likely release a tablet in 2010? Your choices are LG, HTC, Sharp, Motorola, Nokia, and Sanyo. HTC looks like the most likely, and you can bet on it. Seriously, you can actually place your money on that hunch, and according to online betting site BookMaker (the full list of odds for this is available under the site’s Entertainment section), HTC’s currently the odds-on favorite with a +100.
According to a new rumor from Shenzhen, China (where Foxconn and other electronics manufacturers’s factories are), there’s definitely a 7-inch iPad. In fact, it’s so far along the dev process that it’s already being described as a “finished product,” although it has also been noted that 5 different designs are currently being floated around to act as decoys. Further details aren’t available (since this is, at the most, just a rumor), but according to the design, it’ll look more like an oversized iPhone 4 than a mini-fied iPad.
News of the Motorola Droid 2 World Edition—a version of the Droid 2 that supports GSM and European 3G networks for use outside of Verizon’s CDMA network in the US—just leaked out, and it looks like network support won’t be the only difference. According to the leak, it’ll have a faster processor, an ARMv7 CPU clocked at 1.2GHz that managed to earn benchmark scores that rates it as the fastest mobile on the market.
